Places of the Bible

Seleucia

City

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

First Missionary Journey · 45 AD
Barnabas and Saul go to Cyprus · 45 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The sea-port of Antioch, near the mouth of the Orontes. Paul and his companions sailed from this port on their first missionary journey (Acts 13:4). This city was built by Seleucus Nicator, the “king of Syria.” It is said of him that “few princes have ever lived with so great a passion for the building of cities. He is reputed to have built in all nine Seleucias, sixteen Antiochs, and six Laodiceas.” Seleucia became a city of great importance, and was made a “free city” by Pompey. It is now a small village, called el-Kalusi.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

Acts: 13:4

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.